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...canceled by the Germans, who five days earlier had staged an impressive parade of their own, down the Champs-Elysées from the Arc de Triomphe to the Place de la Concorde through a double line of stone-silent onlookers. Chief of State Marshal Henri Philippe Pétain had ordered those of his countrymen whom he governs to observe France's onetime No. 1 holiday as a day "without labor" devoted to thinking of "our dead, our prisoners, our ruins, and our hopes...
Germany was squeezing tighter the noose about the neck of her mortal enemy. There was no more resistance left in sagging old Marshal Pétain; in puffy little Admiral Jean François Darlan there never had been any. Vice Premier Darlan went to Paris during the week, got his orders, returned to pass them on to Chief of State Pétain in Vichy. The orders remained secret, but perhaps Vichy's Ambassador to Paris Fernand de Brinon let the secret slip when he said that formation of a volunteer force to help Germany fight Russia "might...
...Darlan-Weygand collision at least gave weight to the frequently stated theory that Vichy's course is determined less by aging Marshal Pétain than by his more active subordinates...
...would not go beyond her Armistice commitments to the Nazis, the Nazis were permitting Vichy to build an air force for defense of the French Empire. (Under the Armistice terms, all air equipment in the Unoccupied Zone was to be dismantled.) One grey rainy day old Marshal Pétain went to Aulnat airfield, near Clermont-Ferrand (France's Burbank-Akitin...
...base of General Charles de Gaulle's Free French forces. And to the West African port of Dakar convoys kept bringing artillery, armored cars and tanks apparently returned to Vichy by the Nazis. This week General Maxime Weygand flew to Vichy, rushed to confer with Marshal Pétain. A Vichy-De Gaullist clash for France's African Empire-even war between France and Great Britain-seemed near...